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Painting: Introduction to Watercolor Workshop
Class #: AR425 Register Now
Watercolor is a beautiful and versatile medium which has recently been embraced by contemporary art practice. It is suited for larger studio work, for quick journal and travel sketches, or for painting in plein-air. This workshop is designed to introduce students to all aspects of watercolor materials and techniques such as color, transparency, texture, wet into wet, and other tricks of the trade. You will be introduced to artists working in this medium through books and local art exhibitions. Gain confidence with watercolor and begin your exploration of this luminous and exciting medium. Take advantage of the spontaneity and inherent beauty of the watercolor medium, while engaging your personal vision through the unique experience that watercolor has to offer.
Instructor: Francesca Pastine
Cost: $175
Cost: $160
Day: Thurs.        # of meetings: 6
Date(s): 10/17 - 11/21
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Location: Fort Mason, Bldg B     Rm: 205

ALSO STARTING IN AUGUST AT KALA ART INSTITUTE IN BERKELEY:

Watercolor Painting

Francesca Pastine
Class #81: Thursdays, August 29-October 10, 6:30-9:30pm
Tuition $345


Watercolor paintings, works on paper, and other water media have a
strong presence in contemporary art practice. The spontaneity and
luminosity of water-based media on paper is unsurpassed. We will
engage in a laboratory of contemporary practice, with both
traditional and untraditional watercolor techniques, engaging with
watercolor paint, gouache, alternative papers, pens, and ink. You
will begin to set up experiments with material and processes that
will lead you to your own unique visual language. Methods of
critical analysis, color literacy, contemporary painting issues,
and basic painting methods and skills will will also be covered.
Both experienced painters and beginners are welcome.
Francesca Pastine was born in New York City and received her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. She has had exhibitions throughout the Bay Area and many major cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Milwaukee, and Sofia. Pastine is represented by Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco and Pentimenti Gallery. in Philadelphia. She will participate in an exhibit, Rebound: Dissections and Excavations in Book Art, at Halsey Contemporary Art Centre at the University of North Carolina in 2013. Pastine is the recipient of Pollock-Krasner Grant and a Kala Art Institute Fellowship. She has taught art at the San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, the City College of San Francisco, and Dominican University.
http://cutter.rexx.com/~fpastine/

SPRING WATERCOLOR CLASSES

My Class, Introduction to Water Color, at Kala Art Institute Starts March 12:

Introduction to Watercolor

Francesca Pastine
Class #28: Tuesdays, March 12, 19, & 26, 6:30-9:30pm
Tuition $135

The spontaneity and luminosity of watercolor on paper is unsurpassed and can be used to enhance and personalize your prints. This class will engage you in a laboratory of techniques and practice designed to make you comfortable with the watercolor medium. You will begin to set up experiments that will lead you to your own unique visual language. Methods of critical analysis, color literacy, contemporary painting issues, and basic painting methods and skills will be introduced. I will demonstrate color flooding, wet into wet, color luminosity, soft and hard edges, and special techniques to create verve and visual interest in your work.
Francesca Pastine was born in New York City and received her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. She has had exhibitions throughout the Bay Area and many major cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Milwaukee, and Sofia. Pastine is represented by Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco and Pentimenti Gallery. in Philadelphia. She will participate in an exhibit, Rebound: Dissections and Excavations in Book Art, at Halsey Contemporary Art Centre at the University of North Carolina in 2013. Pastine is the recipient of Pollock-Krasner Grant and a Kala Art Institute Fellowship. She has taught art at the San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, the City College of San Francisco, and Dominican University.
http://francesca.pastineart.com

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& I have two classes starting in April at CCSF:

Painting: Introduction to Watercolor Workshop
Class #: AR425 Register Now
Watercolor is a beautiful and versatile medium which has recently been embraced by contemporary art practice. It is suited for larger studio work, for quick journal and travel sketches, or for painting in plein-air. This workshop is designed to introduce students to all aspects of watercolor materials and techniques such as color, transparency, texture, wet into wet, and other tricks of the trade. You will be introduced to artists working in this medium through books and local art exhibitions. Gain confidence with watercolor and begin your exploration of this luminous and exciting medium. Take advantage of the spontaneity and inherent beauty of the watercolor medium, while engaging your personal vision through the unique experience that watercolor has to offer.
Instructor: Francesca Pastine
Cost: $150
Cost: $135 (if registered up to one week before the class begins)
Day: Tues.        # of meetings: 5
Date(s): 4/9 - 5/7
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Location: Fort Mason, Bldg B     Rm: 203

Painting with Water Media
Class #: AR478 Register Now

The purpose of this class is to engage you in a laboratory of contemporary practice using water based media such as watercolor paint, gouache, ink and non-traditional media such as coffee.  We will explore how watermedia reacts on different surfaces. The spontaneity and luminosity of water based material on paper is unsurpassed. You will begin to set up experiments that will lead you to your own unique visual language. Methods of critical analysis, color literacy, contemporary painting issues, and basic painting methods and skills will be introduced. There will be slide lectures, suggested exhibitions and readings, and group interaction through critiques and shared experience.
Instructor: Francesca Pastine
Cost: $150
Cost: $135 (if registered up to one week before the class begins)
Day: Thurs.        # of meetings: 5
Date(s): 4/18 - 5/16
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Location: Fort Mason, Bldg B     Rm: 203
Material fee (pay to instructor):  $10

Watermedia Class Assignment #1
October 17, 2012


Materials:
coffee
gouache
ink
white, brown, sienna conte
watercolor

material list for painting with water media class

1. #12 or #10, #8, #6 round watercolor brushes, 1” Flat

Brush (the flat should be synthetic, the rounds can be natural or synthetic; watercolor brushes have
short handles);

2. Heavy weight Foamcore or Gator board larger than your paper(just tape the edges all the way around
with duct tape. Works great and very cool!)

3. Watercolor pad (sketchbook) to work out ideas

4. Several sharp #2B pencils

5. Kneaded eraser or latex eraser

6. Water container: a plastic margarine tub or other plastic jar

7. Paper towels and box of tissues

8. Watercolor palette: approximately 11 x 15”. Don’t get anything fancy or too small.

9. Watercolor paper: 1 sheets 140-lb. Arches Watercolor paper (cold-pressed). Cut your sheet in
quarters for the first class. Colors:

10. WaterColors to Start with:

Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Red or Napthol Red, Cadmium, Yellow, Burnt Sienn, Burnt Umber, Yellow Ochre, Lemon Yellow, Permanent Rose

11. Other handy tools for later (optional):

Art masking fluid, Candle wax (uncolored candle), natural sponges, scraping tool, old toothbrush

colored wax sticks, pastels, Gladwrap, color pencils/crayons, cheap bristle brush, anything you have to
create texture

OTHER MATERIAL WILL BE INTRODUCED IN CLASS & ON THIS BLOG

WATERCOLORS BY EMIL NOLDE

WORKS BY EMIL NOLDE:  German Expressionist painted born in Schleswig (a village near Nolde), Germany. His birth name was Emil Hassen but he later changed it to Emil Nolde after the name of the town near where he grew up in.  Nolde was one of the first Expressionists and a member of famed "Die Brücke" group. He is perhaps best singled out for his heavy brushwork and dramatic use of color. Nolde was a supporter of the Nazi party from the early 1920s. He had considered Expressionism to be a distinctively Germanic style and shared viewpoints with high level Nazi officials such as Joseph Goebbels. Ironically Adolph Hitler rejected all forms of modern art as "degenerate art", and Nolde's work was officially condemned by the Nazi party. Prior to that point in time Nolde had been a highly regarded and famous artist in Germany. More then one thousand of Nolde's works were removed from German museums and some of them were included in the Degenerate Art exhibition of 1937. By law he was not even permitted to paint. In personal protest he considered to do so and created hundreds of watercolors  which he titled the "Unpainted Pictures". After World War II, Nolde was reaffirmed as a great German artist and even received the German Order of Merit, Germany's highest civilian award.

Work from Watercolor Workshop Fall 2012

Work from Watercolor Workshop Fall 2012

 Jade Johnson (wash class)

Marjorie Chester (final assignment)

Dawn Trennert (wash class)

Asija Wuorenmaa (special technique class)

 

Kathryn Zupsic (wash class)

Brittany Kesler (wash class)

David Baxter (wash class)

Class work: Asija Wuorenmaa

Class work: David Baxter

Class work: Gladys Lyn Lapuz

Class work: Leena Prasad

Assignment 2: Figure/Ground, Dropped in Color

In Assignment #2, students  drew and composed the flower on the page. They then painted the background first, leaving the flower untouched. To do this, they wet the whole page excluding the flower, and dropped color in.  After the background was painted, students put shadow and detail in the flower.  Because  the background was put in first, all their attention went into it, and the result is an  expressive and dynamic negative space (ground) wherein the flower (figure) can exist. Asija did an exceptional job in preserving the whites in her painting. This gives the work a high value range and creates luminosity.

 

Asija Wuorenmaa

 

David Baxter

 

Kathryn Zupsic

 Claora Styron

 Gladys Lyn Lapuz

Nice Watercolor by Kim McCarty

Kim McCarty
Reclining Figure “Long”, 2012
Watercolor on paper
42 x 108 inches
Value: $22,000
Opening Bid: TBD
Courtesy of the artist and Morgan Lehman Gallery

It's being auction off at ArtWalk New York, a benefit for Coalition for the Homeless